Quotes from Donald Knuth

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.